hwa@ece-csc.UUCP (George Hwa) (04/26/89)
I am working on adding a graphics interface to a text based simulation program. Right now I have a interactive plotting package to take plot the outputs from the simulations. The problem I have run into is how to go back and forth between the graphics and the text. The simulator already has its own input handling, not in X of course, and I really don't want to have to mess with any of it. What I had tried was having a menu option that would break out of the event loop and return to the calling procedure, the simulator, allowing the simulator to process more input from the user. The problem with this approach is that events have to wait to be processed until the user reenters the graphics mode by starting another event loop. This is a rather tedious way of doing things. I was wondering if there was anyway to have the event loop continously executing. If there was someway to have it run in the background and only be exited when the program is exited. This would allow all events to be processed as they occur. My graphics routines are written using the X Toolkit and the Athena widgets. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Russ Cook NC State University hwa@ece-csc.ncsu.edu